System of Sacred Theology · §3.2.8 · Ludwig Crocius

Reasons 9-12: body fabric; stars; harmony; human arts

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THE NINTH REASON is founded on the body's fabric so skillfully ordered. Only by a most wise craftsman. But this is God.

THE TENTH REASON is founded on contemplation of the stars revolving with marvelous art. But this is God.

THE ELEVENTH REASON is founded on the fatal and necessary harmony of things. But this is God.

THE TWELFTH REASON is founded on the human arts. If man is ruled by art and wisdom, the whole world must be ruled by art and wisdom. And therefore let us believe God.

Latin

RATIO NONA fundatur in fabrica corporis tam affabre ordinata. Non nisi a sapientissimo opifice. At hic Deus est. RATIO DECIMA fundatur in contemplatione astrorum mira arte rotantium. At hic Deus est. RATIO UNDECIMA fundatur in fatali ac necessaria harmonia rerum. At haec Deus est. RATIO DUODECIMA fundatur in artibus humanis. Si arte & sapientia regitur homo, necesse est totum mundum arte & sapientia regi. Atque ideo Deo credamus.

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Ludwig Crocius's System of Sacred Theology (Bremen, 1636), all four books: theology and its rule in Scripture; man's last end, death and the resurrection; God, the Trinity, creation, providence and sin; and the grace of Christ, the Word and sacraments, faith, the Christian life and prayer.

Ludwig Crocius (1586–1655) taught theology and philosophy at Bremen and sat as a delegate at the Synod of Dort (1618–1619). A Calvinist of the irenic school, he spent his career seeking common ground between the Reformed and Lutheran churches.

His System of Sacred Theology (Bremen, 1636) is a full Reformed dogmatics in the high-orthodox style: precise definitions, ordered questions, objections raised and answered.

Date1636 AD (Bremen; Reformed professor)

EditionSyntagma sacrae theologiae (Bremen: Berthold Villerian, 1636)

English follows the 1636 Bremen Latin (Berthold Villerian), read chapter by chapter from the SLUB Dresden page images, with a machine reading of the same pages as a check. No modern English was copied. The author index at the end of the volume is not translated.

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